# dressing
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɹɛsɪŋ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛsɪŋ

### Etymology 1

From Middle English dressing, dressinge, dressynge, equivalent to dress +‎ -ing.

#### Noun

dressing (countable and uncountable, plural dressings)
* (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
** 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.
* (cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
** 2021 July 21, Gabrielle Hamilton, “A Salad So Good You Can Eat It for Breakfast”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:I was even more excited to tailor it with a choice of dressings — blue cheese, ranch, French, Russian, Italian, creamy Italian.
* Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
* The activity of getting dressed.
** 2004, Kathryn Banks, Joseph Harris, Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations, page 182:Considered thus, the performance is a translation into images of bodies on display, as is well demonstrated by Monsieur Jourdain's repeated dressings and undressings.
* (obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
** 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Women ought to repair the losses , time and years have made in their features, with dressings
* The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.
    Synonym: forcemeat
* Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
* An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
* (dated) Castigation; scolding; a dressing down.
** 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 71:"I once saw what a dressing he gave a silly chattering fool, that answered his challenge some time before."
* (dated) The process of extracting metals or other valuable components from minerals.
* (Maine) Manure that's applied to one's garden.

##### Derived terms

* boiled dressing
* Catalina dressing
* cross-dressing
* dopamine dressing
* dressing-bell
* dressing-boy
* dressing case
* dressing code
* dressing-down
* dressing forceps
* dressing gown
* dressing-gown
* dressing jacket
* dressing mirror
* dressing sack
* dressing station
* dressing stick
* dressing table
* field dressing
* freedom dressing
* French dressing
* hairdressing
* investment dressing
* island dressing
* Italian dressing
* Louis dressing
* ore dressing
* pick dressing
* power dressing
* ranch dressing
* Russian dressing
* salad dressing
* stonedressing
* Thousand Island dressing
* wafu dressing
* well dressing
* window dressing

##### Descendants

* → German: Dressing

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English dressynge, dressande, equivalent to dress +‎ -ing.

#### Verb

dressing
* present participle and gerund of dress

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dressing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdrɛ.sɪŋ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: dres‧sing
* Rhymes: -ɛsɪŋ

### Noun

dressing m (plural dressings, diminutive dressinkje n)
* a dressing, a cold sauce for salads

### See also

* slasaus

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʁɛ.siŋ/ ~ /dʁe.siŋ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

dressing m (plural dressings)
* dressing room (small walk-in room off a bedroom)
    Synonym: dressing room
* wardrobe

### Further reading

* “dressing” in Cordial.
* “dressing” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
* “dressing” in L'Internaute.

## Middle English
### Noun

dressing
* Alternative form of dressynge

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dressing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdrɛ.siŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛsiŋk
* Syllabification: dre‧ssing

### Noun

dressing m inan
* dressing (sauce, especially a cold one for salads)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* dressing in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* dressing in PWN's encyclopedia

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dresiŋ/

### Noun

dressing c
* dressing (sauce)

#### Derived terms

* currydressing
* hamburgerdressing
* orientdressing
* salladsdressing
* vitlöksdressing

### References

* dressing in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* dressing in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* Fula Ordboken